Years of bad Foreign Trade Agreements that encouraged the flight of both manufacturing and jobs offshore. The highest Corporate Taxes in the world have contributed to nation crushing manufacturing and unemployment. Years of of unelected bureaucrats have written miles of red tape (in July of 2011 9.5 Billion more) enough to send Astronauts far from earth in interstellar adventure

Instead of addressing and freezing and cutting spending which would have been a fiscally sound decision that would have placed this nation on a path to pay off our debt, our elected officials denied reality and Americans got another big bad deal .

When Obama took office, unemployment was 7.8%, now it's 9.2%, up 18% from when he took office.

If your stomach has not turned enough already, This Government Cost Calculator will show you based on your income the price of the fiscal insanity that has been practiced by our elected officials.